Balance

We need a certain degree of imbalance to progress

June 29th 2026
To describe someone as ‘well-balanced’ is to acknowledge that they have one of the most precious and most difficult qualities to acquire, because it is the result of two contradictory movements. You see some people talking, walking and busying themselves as if it were so effortless to live life and feel good. We could say these people are well-balanced, but in fact they are not, they are stagnating. Day after day they are always the same, as if an inner spring had lost its tension. They always wear the same impassive expression, go through the same motions, repeat the same old words, and so on. They cannot evolve in this way.
We need a certain degree of imbalance to progress, provided that we keep a close watch on ourselves and know how to correct the scales when the pans become too lopsided. Knowing how to keep different forces in balance gives us a magical power over ourselves and over nature, but we must watch carefully to maintain a certain amount of movement to and fro. For the day the scales are in perfect balance, all movement stops and death sets in. Indeed, death is perfect balance.
So, we must always be making adjustments within ourselves. The true quality of ‘good balance’ is the most difficult state of all to attain.
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